Perhaps not. It seems entirely reasonable to assume that if the president can, as he promised last year on the campaign trail, cause the oceans to recede, surely he can drain the Potomac from time to time for an easy commute on foot.

Has the press discovered that their love affair will be decidedly unidirectional, now that Obama won the election? Or will they actually realize that it was unidirectional all along, but that their infatuation blinded them to this, as well as several other truths about Barack Obama that have become clear from the fumbling, bumbling start to his presidency?